Here's facebook giving to Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson, who in a public hearing called the Environmental Protection Agency "un-American".pic.twitter.com/H1aG9r1VM9
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Wikipedia: "In December 2017 [...] Gregg Harper supported a review of overhauling the Congressional Accountability Act which makes it harder for victims of sexual harassment to come forward with allegations than victims in the private sector." Facebook gave his campaign $1000.pic.twitter.com/Mpx58y5NGT
That same month, Facebook gave $5000 to Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, who has repeatedly introduced legislation to overturn Roe vs. Wade, was the only senator of 99 to vote against an amendment saying "climate change is real and not a hoax", and has an A+ rating from the NRApic.twitter.com/A5Xflwo1qM
And of course, Facebook has donated to Steve Scalise, who once famously spoke at a white power rally.pic.twitter.com/PkqC1EeSJ3
Here's Facebook donating to Tim Murphy, the pro-life congressman who famously pressured his lover to get an abortion, and in whose office harrassment was rampant. Murphy would resign just a few months after this March 2017 donation.pic.twitter.com/8ZMbvR3ZJR
On February 7, 2017, Senator Steve Daines blocked Elizabeth Warren from reading a letter from Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor, as its factual content was offensive to Jeff Sessions. Six weeks later, Facebook gave Daines's campaign $2500.pic.twitter.com/c3aiYSowH1
So who is making these political decisions? It's not the donors—typically high-level executives pay into a company PAC automatically, and if you look at personal political donations from people like Sheryl Sandberg or @boztank, none of them go to people like Scalise or Nunes.
Employees at Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others deserve an explanation for why money is being given in their name to help re-elect some of the worst people in government.
Here's Salesforce (which only very recently started political giving) donating to re-elect climate science denialist and self-proclaimed "friend of coal" Larry Bucshon in April.pic.twitter.com/7ckTz3sWt5
Here's Facebook donating to Patrick McHenry, a blockchain-obsessed Republican who has moved aggressively to dismantle consumer protections on the financial industry. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedknutson/2018/07/18/regulators-need-to-use-big-data-artificial-intelligence-to-meet-fintech-challenge-says-key-us-rep/ …pic.twitter.com/FPyhDpPJLX
McHenry was also rude to Elizabeth Warren in a hearing to such an extent that his hometown paper felt compelled to apologize. The pattern seems to be, if you're an asshole to Elizabeth Warren (Daines, McHenry), Facebook PAC will give you thousands
Here's Google donating $5K (the maximum permissible) to an entity called ICE PAC on June 30. ICE PAC is backing a raft of Republican candidates for the House and Senate. See "Itemized Disbursements" for the full list. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/368/201807219119262368/201807219119262368.pdf …pic.twitter.com/uuqDweYkZC
Here's Silicon Valley Bank PAC maxing out to Kevin McCarthy on June 1, the only donation it made in this filing. McCarthy is a climate change denialist and a leader in the fight to repeal Obamacare. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/593/201807209119247593/201807209119247593.pdf …pic.twitter.com/1dLZfEEM5J
If you're wondering who at Google is donating all this money to Republicans, you can find a full donor list here. These look like payroll deductions, and I suspect a number of these employees aren't aware that they're bankrolling the far right. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/946/201807209115824946/201807209115824946.pdf …
Here's Salesforce on June 28 making a $1500 donation to Promoting Our Republican Team PAC. The money is funnelled directly to a half-dozen Republican Senate candidates in competitive races. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/152/201807249119313152/201807249119313152.pdf …pic.twitter.com/QZWOuto3Lv
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